#governments should be afraid of their people

[gingiesworld]

The Scarlet Storm : Hydra Reborn

Chapter Five

Wanda Maximoff x GiP Fem Reader

Warnings : Angst, Fluff

18+ MINORS DNI

"You knew Bucky?" Steve asked as soon as he walked towards Y/N's cell.

"He is my brother." Y/N told him.

"Bucky never had a sister." Steve told her.

"I was with Hydra from birth. Bucky and I were there together." Y/N told them. "And if you don't get him back here. Alec will come after him."

"What do you mean?" Steve questioned.

"Alec Schmitt." Y/N told them. "The descendant of Johan Schmitt." Steve looked at her with shock. Shaking his head no. "Do you honestly think you had ended Hydra. Schmitt's plans for a new world. A world where Hydra become the new high government. Not afraid to cause anarchy within the streets. Set those who are righteous against each other. Watch the world burn from within."

"You're lying." He said as he quickly sent a message to Bucky. Requesting him to return instantly. "She is lying right?" He asked Wanda who shook her head no.

"She's telling the truth." Wanda told him sadly. Both becoming nervous at the thought of Hydra returning.

"Bucky should be here within a few hours." Steve told them both. "I need you to find out as much as you can from her." The two watched as Steve left the cells in a hurry.

"So is this the part were you ask me more questions?" Y/N asked her with a raised brow.

"I can." Wanda stated as she sat down. "But you are only human. Just like the rest of us."

"I am nothing like you. Or any of you." Y/N snarled. "I didn't have a choice to become this." Y/N gestured to herself. "You did." She pointed at Wanda. "You volunteered. I remember hearing about the witch twins from Sokovia."

"Have you ever been to Sokovia?" Wanda asked as she watched Y/N pace the cell.

"I don't remember." Y/N said as she stopped her movements. "I remember snippets, but those visions you placed in my mind keep popping up and quite frankly, IT'S EXHAUSTING SO PLEASE JUST FUCKING STOP!!!"

"I can't stop what your own mind is doing." Wanda told her. "I can only really make things move with my mind and make people see their worst fears, but I haven't done that since before Pietro died."

"Your twin died?" Y/N questioned. Taking a seat opposite Wanda. Watching her curiously.

"He did." Wanda sniffled. "He died fighting for Sokovia against a homocidal AI."

"I think I remember hearing something about that." Y/N mentioned. "It was after we lost Bucky. Well he escaped." She looked at her fingers as Wanda watched as a flush of different emotions passed through Y/N's eyes. "What was your brother like?" The question took Wanda by surprise but she answered. Telling her about some of the memories she had with him before they volunteered. Even before the bombing that claimed their parent's lives.

What she didn't realise was how long she was down there for given that when both Bucky and Sam entered the compound. Heading straight for the meeting room. Bucky's eyes instantly landing on the monitor that Nat was sat in front of.

"Is that Y/N?" He asked as he pointed to the screen.

"You knew her?" Nat asked as soon as she turned around to face him.

"We uh we were in the same base." He stated. "Siberia. It was the one where they would throw our brains in the blender."

"We found her in Russia." Steve stated. "With a whole bunch of Hydra agents."

"I thought we stopped them." Bucky asked with wide eyes.

"So did we, but Johan Schmitt's grandson has something to say about it." Steve said as Bucky just left the room. Heading straight for the cells. Stopping in his tracks when he saw her. Alive.

"Y/N." He whispered. Y/N's head perked up at the sound of his voice. "You're alive." He had tears in his eyes as he stepped forward.

"Bucky." Y/N smiled when she was on her feet.

"I can't believe it." They both said in unison.

"I need to get out of here." Y/N told him.

"I can't do that Y/N." Bucky shook his head. "They can't trust you just yet. I'm sorry."

"SO ARE YOU JUST GOING TO LEAVE ME HERE AGAIN!!" Y/N yelled at him. His heart broke at the hurt in her voice.

"I'm sorry Y/N." He whispered before turning his back, leaving the cells as he heard her shout all sorts of different profanities after him. Nat watched as she saw Y/N cry as she screamed after the man she knew as her brother. A hint of jealousy played around in her mind because Y/N never even remembered her.

Nat soon took over Wanda. Giving her a break. Watching as Y/N sat in the corner of her cell. Looking off into space.

"You're Natasha right?" Y/N asked as she finally looked in Nat's direction.

"I am. But everyone calls me Nat." Nat told her. Trying to make light of the situation.

"Natasha Romanoff. You had a sister. Two sisters." Y/N pointed out as Nat nodded.

"Yeah. Y/N and Yelena." Nat informed her.

"Y/N. Like me Y/N." Y/N spoke like she was ineducated. It broke Nat's heart knowing that Hydra stripped away everything that made Y/N, Y/N. "I keep having these visions. I think the witch bitch put them in my head." Y/N said as she gestured to her mind. Of course, Nat had to hold back a laugh at the name she gave Wanda. "It's like I'm looking at memories but they don't feel like my memories. Like I am watching a movie." Nat just sat there and listened as she spoke. "Like I'm feeling someone else's emotions as I see them. Dream of them."

Nat then started to sing American Pie. Yelena's favourite song. Y/N soon joined in with her. A tear falling down her face.

"We used to sing that every night to Yelena. It was the only thing besides the two of us that would calm her." Nat told her.

"So you're my sister?" Y/N asked her. "You two were taken from me. By that man. Dreykov. The one who sent me to Hydra."

"Yes I am." Nat said as she rose to her feet. "Dreykov is also dead." Nat told her. Y/N felt some sort of relief in hearing those words.

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[arielsojourner]

USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

[0rb0t]

please watch A Bug's Life and V for Vendetta. in that order.

[brightlotusmoon]

That film did help revolutionize me. Back then, I didn't really understand the way I do now. The movie crawled into my brain and nested there, along with the rest of the Wachowski films. I need to rewatch with my More Adult brain.

The Wachowski sisters really understand the assignment.

“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” - V for Vendetta (2005)

[vintageseawitch]

something that hits especially hard whenever i remember it: "Street Fighting Man" by the Rolling Stones playing during the "V for Vendetta" movie credits~

[pedulum-chronometry]

What I need this March is people protesting the elongated muskrat or the government to have “beware the ides” as a protest sign or rallying cry

[disasterhimbo]

[ID: a bluesky post by sketchmasterskillz.bsky (@skychmstrskllz) dated December 5, 2024. It says, “CEOs are in danger, we need to put all of them in a submarine until we know it’s safe.” End ID.]

[foxlecter]

Going to be selling some V for Vendetta tote bags soon 🫣

[godihatethiswebsite]

[glugglugs]

I think more zionists should be pushed into canals, actually.

[starlightshadowsworld]

Calling all Brits on this hellsite.

We all saw Elon Musk do the nazi salute at the Trump inauguration. We know that he is influencing and fanning the flames of right wing political parties.

And that very well may include ours.

Because Elon Musk has pledged to donate $100 million to the Reform party. He has since mentioned that it might be hard to give such a large sum now.

But I don’t think we should take our chances. And I think we can agree that letting billionaires influence our countries politics is a terrible idea.

If you also agree here’s a link to a Parliament petition.

It calls for the government to remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies).

As it is a parliament petition the government are required to debate it in parliament. But for that to happen it needs to reach 100,000 signatures.

Non British folk I’m afraid you guys can’t sign but I encourage you guys to reblog so that more people can see this.

[baekuras]

wow

okay so a company i applied to IS interested in meeting me....for the usual assessment test stuff

now usually that is done online however

they emailed me that they want to meet me/others presumably to do the test IN PERSON at 9:30am...............in a city that's 3 hours away 3 hours once public transport starts so i couldn't even BE there at 9:30 if I wanted to bc nothing drives which would mean i'd have to stay overnight which is like 100-130€s for smth that's basically an online test which means i am likely to fail at the math portion if anything

i am not spending 100-200€'s for a "maybe" no, none of the possible travel costs would be reimbursed

it may be a city job but damn i don't have the energy for that

nevermind that it's my last vacation day and if i didn't have vacation it'd be impossible

[reinelefey]

This is the issue I have with Tumblr and the "mobility" of any actual movement here.

Part of me hates being the person who writes what comes next, as I know the backlash that will come with it. Please read this, and sit with it, and think about it.

Before we begin: I am chronically ill. I have the lovely h-EDS, AuAdhd, POTS, and MCAS combo. I am a FREQUENT patient at hospitals, and have had 13 pulmonary embolisms as of this writing. (Blood clots blocking off portions of my lungs, and also quite likely to kill you.) I am one of the patients you speak of. I am the one with crumbling teeth who still must eat while I pull shards of bone from the mouth with needlenose pliers because dental care costs money I don't have, if I want to have somewhere to live, and something for my family to eat. I do not have access to pain meds on demand, nor doctors, because I do not have insurance that can pay for it, because despite being chronically ill, the government decided to remove my coverage with ZERO warning about doing so leaving me with my last hospital bill of 45k to pay OUT OF POCKET. I work, and struggle to survive because I "do not qualify" for aid from the government. I desired an idealogical revolution. I hoped if we could just SHOW them how much we need what they deny us, we could make our government care. But we can't. They don't. We don't have the money the corporations have. The truth is, the people no longer lead their government, as we are meant to do. The corporations do, and they do not care for people.

You see, the issue here is that the OP has a point. You cannot tell someone your life is worth more than theirs because no one's life is more valuable than another. That's not how it works.

But a further issue is that though the OP has a point, as do you.... It is also a non point.

The revolutionaries will not have guns aimed at your hospitals, will not cut the power to them. Because we fight for those in the hospitals, we fight for those to sick to fight for themselves, too weak, too scared. That's the thing.

Right now, we have TRIED peace. We have TRIED protests, we have TRIED voting. But in a system where the oppression is BUILT INTO the system, the only way that we can change things is to change the system. The government does not want to allow that because this current system benefits them so much.

This IS going to come down to a fight. I'm sorry, but at this point it is an inevitability, if we actually intend to progress to a point where we are able to sustain this country.

So the point now is to figure out how this CAN be done with the lowest number of casualties. You see, I don't think my life means more than any other life. But I do think that the life and security of the whole is greater than the one.

People are dying in the streets. People are dying in hospitals. People are Dying because the government is not allocating enough funds to healthcare.

We do not fight because we want your patients to die. I myself am chronically ill, and am unfortunately a frequent flyer at my local hospital because of it. Without the blood thinners I take daily, my lungs would fill with clots and I would slowly suffocate to death while my lungs die piece by piece inside of my body.

I am fighting because I want for me, for your patients, and for those dying in the streets of treatable illnesses, a fucking life. A CHANCE to live. To SEE what this world has to offer without the fetters we have been placed in.

Yes. People will die. I will likely die if it comes down to fighting. Many others will die. Innocent people will die.

My life is not worth more than theirs. But the freedom of the whole is worth the risk to my life, to their lives, to all of our "lives". Because we do not have lives currently. What we have is survival. And I guarantee that any chronically ill person will tell you that there is a difference between survival and living.

Of course you don't want your innocent patients to die. Neither do we. But we cannot- CANNOT- put survival above the freedom to live.

The truth is, no one wants this to go violently. Not those who genuinely want to make things better. We would prefer peace. But peace is not changing things anymore. Peace has been making them worse.

It's time we change the power balance in this country, and remind the government who they are meant to represent. Despite their beliefs, we do not belong to them. They belong to us. Unfortunately that might mean violence.

How much violence depends on them. So, no, my life, my freedom, my needs are not above the needs of a single other human. But the needs of our country as a whole are above all. A single life cannot be held comparable to 330 some odd million. 100 lives cannot be held comparable.

I understand the horror of losing patients, I understand the trauma of losing people you /know/- people you /care/ about. But every single day someone out there is going through that loss with someone they /love/, someone they /birthed/, someone they now get to bury because a representative of the government "thought" a 12 yr old boy had a "real gun", instead of a water pistol. Someone they get to bury Because the police bust into her home in the middle of the night, and shoot her. Someone to bury because someone couldn't listen when he said he couldn't breathe.

There are homeless men and women starving, and dying of preventable, treatable illnesses on our streets. There are disabled people ROTTING in their beds because they can't afford the care that would make their lives livable.

The truth is, your patients are already dying- some before they have a chance to be your patients. You want to save them, and of course you do, it is human nature. But posts like this that would try to create guilt over what is to come are not helpful. They are not informative. And all they serve to do is put more burden on people who are already carrying those burdens with them.

Those of us who have seriously taken the time to try and figure this out, to try and come up with something, ANYTHING Else to change what is coming, what must come, are not your enemies. The corporations who tell you you can't treat someone because they can't pay are the enemies. The government who tells you you cannot remove a fetus from a woman's body to save her life are the enemies.

We do not fight you. We do not fight your patients. But we will not carry the guilt of their deaths. It will be the government that attacks infrastructure like this because they will not want hospitals and medical available to treat thos who fight them. Their deaths will be on the heads of those that already bear such guilt with pride.

I know this is anathema to you, and it would be anathema to anyone who fights on a daily basis to save lives - as it should be. But unfortunately... Sometimes saving lives comes at the cost of lives.

We need to keep thos casualties in mind, and do every single thing that we can to decrease those casualties, but we cannot let the guilt of their deaths stop the motion of change. I'm sorry, but we cannot.

I am sure this will anger you, and I am sure that it will anger others. And you and they SHOULD be angry. It should have never gotten to this point. It should have never come to a place where the government ceases to weigh the cost of human lives in their policies. It should never have come to a place where the corporations and their supply of over inflated American Currency have better handle on American Lawmakers than the American People do.

But the fact is that we are at that point.

People will die. But what is important is making sure that those deaths, that terrible cost is not paid in vain.

We said Never Again after 1945. But we are ignoring the signs now, before it is too late to stop it. What will we say in 2045 once the dust clears, If Never Again didn't mean Never Again? How will we explain to our children that we SAW the fascism coming, and CHOSE not to stop it because some people may have died?

No. I will not be the one to explain that to my children. No matter the outcome, I will fight this. I will protect the future of our world, I will do my damnedest to make sure that I leave this place a better world than when I got here.

And if that means there will be blood on my hands, that is the cost I will pay for my children to live, instead of just surviving.

I think a lot about how, if the glorious violent revolution happens, every kid with significant medical needs in a hospital where power gets cut will die.

You can decide you're willing to sacrifice your own life, but you don't get to tell everybody else on the planet that they're acceptable collateral damage.

[foxlecter]

Obsessed with the way this turned out

[thebreakfastgenie]

It is extremely disturbing how many posts I see claiming that Roe v. Wade was overturned on Biden's watch and blaming him and the Democratic Party for it. It's disturbing on a number of levels.

First, it was Trump and Bush-appointed justices who handed down the Dobbs decision. This is a flagrant example of blaming Democrats for things Republicans did, and not coincidentally is one of the the most widely felt differences between the two parties. As a result, it's usually the first example Democrats and their allies point to; this misappropriation suggests a deliberate attempt to undercut that fact.

Secondly, and related to the first point, it obfuscates who the real enemy is, and I am comfortable using word "enemy" to describe the Republican Party because of the policies they advocate and enact. The truth is that states controlled by the Republican Party were where the effects of Dobbs are most severely felt, while states controlled by the Democratic Party are passing laws to protect abortion. It is important to know which party opposes abortion and which party supports it. If the Republicans gain control of the House, Senate, and White House, they will pass a national abortion ban, as they have done at the state level in several places.

Thirdly, blaming Biden for Dobbs demonstrates a very concerning lack of understanding of how the government functions. The judiciary is its own branch of government; judges are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. It doesn't matter who is president when a decision is handed down, it matters who was president when the justices were appointed. People sometimes react to this by moving the goalposts and claiming the real issue was a failure by Democrats to "codify" Roe v. Wade. I am not sure what "codify" means in this context, and I'm not sure they are either. One thing it does not mean is that congress can pass a law saying "abortion is legal forever." Republicans could easily repeal such a law and it the federal government cannot necessarily prevent states from restricting abortion at the state level. Roe v. Wade was a ruling stating that the constitution guaranteed a right to privacy, which included the right to have an abortion. This prevented abortion restrictions in a way federal law cannot. That doesn't mean passing federal law protecting abortion is a bad idea, but it isn't a foolproof protection. It's fair to argue that the Democratic Party and the left of center generally were complacent about abortion. The form of this complacency was not taking the courts seriously, while the right spent fifty years openly filling the courts with anti-abortion judges.

The last thing that worries me is that this is popping up phrased almost the exact same way all over the place. I am afraid that it is not merely incompetence, but intentional misinformation, that is then repeated by the incompetent who believe it.

I know some will probably dismiss this post as being from a "vote harder" liberal Biden supporter, but whatever your feelings about Biden, the Democratic Party, or the democratic process in the U.S., you should care about the truth. The truth is that Roe v. Wade was overturned by Republican-appointed judges and abortion bans are being enacted by Republican elected officials, and Joe Biden opposes these things. You can do with that information whatever you wish, but you denying it is dishonest.